The NECS conference 2027 focus on
Environmental Chemistry for a Resilient Nordic and Arctic Future - Contaminants, Climate and the Blue Green Transition.
Climate Change and Contaminants
PFAS, POPs, mercury; remobilisation from soils, permafrost, glaciers, snow, sediments; changing transport, transformation, bioavailability, exposure.
Extreme Events and Biogeochemistry
Warming, biomass shifts, wildfires, droughts, floods, hydrology, glacial thaw; carbon, nutrient, metal cycling; organic matter dynamics and ecosystem feedbacks.
Emerging Contaminants and Risk
PFAS and persistent/mobile chemicals; pharmaceuticals; transformation products; mixtures, exposomics, effect-based methods; monitoring and regulation.
Plastics and Particles
Micro/nanoplastics; tire/road-wear; weathering, sorption, vector effects, trophic transfer; harmonised analytics.
Fate and Nature-Based Solutions
Degradation and transformation; soil/sediment remediation; biochar; urban runoff controls.
Ocean Under Change
Acidification; marine CDR (risks/monitoring); alkalinity enhancement; kelp/seagrass; trace metals, nutrients; novel contaminant monitoring.
Blue Green Transition Footprints
Pressures and cumulative impacts from aquaculture, offshore wind, fisheries, shipping, marine minerals; inputs, carrying capacity, monitoring, spatial coexistence.
Circular Economy and Zero Pollution
Safe and sustainable by design; non-toxic cycles; PFAS substitution; chemical recycling; resource recovery; advanced oxidation/electrochemical and nature-based treatments.
One Health
Exposome; food and drinking-water exposure; vulnerable groups; Arctic and Indigenous communities; mixtures and cumulative exposure.
Water Security
Drinking-water systems (incl. small/remote); source-water quality; DOM; PFAS, metals, DBPs; treatment under extreme events.